Principal Management Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Management Consultant to help scale and deliver its growing digital analytics portfolio by providing a clear architectural vision across data platforms, analytics, and enterprise systems. This role is critical to ensuring that digital solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with client business needs, while enabling consistent data governance and accelerating value realization across complex utility environments.

The Principal Management Consultant is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise‑wide data and analytics architecture that enables secure, trusted, and scalable use of data across the organization. This role provides architectural leadership across data platforms, integrations, analytics, and governance, with a strong focus on supporting operational, regulatory, and strategic decision‑making for clients in the utility sector. This role will partner closely with business leaders, IT, and analytics teams to align data strategy with enterprise objectives, modernize legacy environments, and enable advanced analytics use cases such as AMI, asset management, customer operations, and regulatory reporting. We are location agnostic for this position.

Role Accountabilities

Enterprise Data Architecture & Strategy

Provide leadership in defining and recommending enterprise data and analytics architectures, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Establish architectural standards and design patterns for data ingestion, integration, storage, analytics, and visualization. Develop and maintain enterprise roadmaps for data platforms and emerging technologies, ensuring strong alignment between business strategy, data strategy, and technology investments.

Analytics Platforms & Cloud Architecture

Lead the architecture and design of modern analytics platforms, including cloud‑based solutions such as Azure, Microsoft Fabric, enterprise data warehouses, and BI tools. Guide the development of scalable and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, and analytics environments while ensuring performance, reliability, security, and cost optimization. Support the adoption of self‑service analytics capabilities while maintaining appropriate enterprise governance.

Data Governance & Information Management

Partner closely with business and IT stakeholders to define and implement enterprise data governance frameworks. Establish standards and approaches for data quality, metadata management, master and reference data, and data lifecycle management. Support data cataloging, lineage, and stewardship initiatives while ensuring compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements relevant to utilities.

Integration & Systems Architecture

Design and document enterprise data flows across key operational systems such as AMI, CIS, ERP, CMMS, SCADA, and GIS. Promote consistent integration patterns and interoperability across vendor and in‑house solutions. Lead architectural reviews and provide recommendations for new systems, enhancements, and third‑party technology platforms.

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, program managers, and business stakeholders by translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance. Mentor solution architects and technical teams, promoting best practices in enterprise architecture. Act as a subject matter expert to support client engagements, pursuits, and proposal development in enterprise data and analytics.

Key Attributes

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a pragmatic, implementation-focused mindset. Strong communication skills with the capability of influencing at executive and technical levels will be important. The candidate will need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across organizations. You will need to have a passion for enabling data-driven decision-making in mission-critical utility environments. We will also need this candidate to mentor, develop, and manage technical teams.

Qualifications & Experience

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, data architecture, or analytics architecture roles
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise data and analytics platforms
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, UAF.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data integration, analytics, and BI architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern data ecosystems (Azure preferred)
• Proven ability to work across business and technical teams in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the water, wastewater, or utility sector, including familiarity with utility operational systems including SCADA, AMI, asset management, customer systems, or regulatory reporting.
• Experience establishing or leading enterprise data governance programs.
• Knowledge of utility operational systems and data domains.
• Experience supporting large, multi‑year enterprise transformation programs.
• Professional certifications (e.g., Azure, data architecture, or analytics certifications).

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $122,760 - $235,290. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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